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Pre-Health Sciences Advising at Pacific Lutheran University provides advising and support to students and alumni who are interested in exploring careers in the health professions including medicine,
a career in the health professions because of our academic excellence and rich opportunities for research and service. The liberal arts education you will obtain at PLU will be an advantage at most schools, particularly for pre-med students interested in medical school. With the exception of physical therapy, there is no formal pre-health science major or academic track at PLU. With careful academic planning, you can major in any field of study and still complete the requirements for medical
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 27, 2016)- The scene: a cramped room somewhere in a Pacific Lutheran University residence hall at the beginning of the millennium. The characters: five nerdy dudes, each with a handful of dice and plenty of junk food. This is “The Gamers,” a…
subculture of gaming — humor about nerds who are the heroes, not the butt of the jokes. “This is the antithesis of ‘The Big Bang Theory,’” he said. “Showing people who feel real and grounded who you can identify with.” Dobyns said “The Gamers” isn’t the first film about gaming culture, but it treats nerds as people as opposed to stereotypes. “We really work hard to create projects that you don’t have to feel guilty about laughing at,” he said of his production company, Zombie Orpheus Entertainment
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When Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system. He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout…
on justice, I’m fortunate to be at PLU, an institution with a strong commitment to social justice,” Levy says. “Other institutions wouldn’t support expert witness work for faculty. But PLU does.” At PLU, Levy teaches anthropology courses that explore how Latin America studies inform anthropological theory, the impact of free trade policies; the state from an ethnographic perspective; and how international migrants build lives in more than one nation-state. Many of his students go on into migrant
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Pacific Lutheran University Organ Studies. Most lessons are taught on the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ, a wonderful instrument well known to the organ world, nationally and internationally
music, we offer degrees in performance, education, composition and the liberal arts. Our graduates have gone on to become highly successful music educators, opera singers, singer-songwriters, orchestra and chamber musicians, conductors, and even actors and reality television hosts. No matter what your field of study, there’s a place for you in our music community. Please check out the many avenues of music study available to you at PLU by visiting the main music page. We offer music scholarships to
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The Department of Economics offers the unique opportunity to participate in an economics alumni mentoring program for all majors to help you prepare for your life beyond PLU.
National Association for Business Economics Conference with the funding of the economics department. We were able to hear renowned speakers from Amazon, Google and other high-profile tech companies. Not only was it a great opportunity for me to further my learning in economics it a was chance to network with many professionals in the field of economics. In addition to attending the conference, we were given the amazing opportunity to tour Amazon with PLU alumni, Desiree Domini. It was excited to see
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 12, 2016)- Steinar Bryn’s peacebuilding work has kept him busy in Norway, eastern Europe and elsewhere around the world, but his ties to Pacific Lutheran University run deep. The repeat Nobel Peace Prize nominee has developed and supported dialogue centers in the…
hosted a variety of seminars and forums on Nansen-related topics. Additionally, PLU students have participated in field research, faculty-student projects and Fulbright scholarships abroad through Nansen. Bryn, who has won numerous awards, is particularly concerned with transferring his experience in southeastern Europe to other areas of conflict. Feller said he embodies an important component of PLU’s mission. “It is in our DNA and with special, unique partners like Dr. Bryn that the peacebuilding
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 27, 2016)- Hosted by the Pacific Lutheran University Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and featuring Holocaust researchers and historians from all over the country, the ninth annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will explore “Women and the Holocaust” Oct. 17-19 at…
explore “Women and the Holocaust” Oct. 17-19 at PLU.“We’re going to specifically focus on how women’s experiences, because of their gender, were different from that of men,” said conference organizer and PLU history professor Beth Griech-Polelle. “If we really want to capture the historical moment and time of the holocaust, it’s not enough to leave women out of the story.” Griech-Polelle, who serves as the Kurt Mayer chair in Holocaust studies at PLU, says that only recently did the field of Holocaust
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Last year Martha Spieker ’16 was ASPLU president, now she works at Congress.
, including field work throughout Egypt and Sudan. Dr. Graven served as the chief architect of patient-centered country-wide health information systems (HIS) in five countries. The HIS in Belize was recognized as the best of its kind, world-wide, by the Health Metrics Network (HMN) of the World Health Organization in 2008. This system has eight embedded disease management protocols with high adherence to evidence based treatment guidelines which led to a decrease in crude mortality of 1/1000 and a
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More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.
. Study away in Oslo, NorwayNorway’s capital is teeming with active and politically engaged citizens. Home to the Nobel Peace Prize, scenic beauty and outdoor life, Oslo is an ideal setting for deep exploration into the field of peace and conflict resolution. “Here everyone knows each other’s names,” Restad said. “The students can knock on our doors. We don’t really have office hours.” Torstein Dale-Åkerlund, head of studies for the peace and conflict program, says that’s one of the ways Bjørknes
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Colloidal Nanocrystals” A. M. Munro Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 38, 020805 (2020). Editor’s Pick Part of a Special Topic Collection on 30 years of the Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award – Celebrating the Women of the AVS. “Phenyldithiocarbamate Ligands Decompose During Nanocrystal Ligand Exchange” A. M. Munro, C. Chandler, M. Garling, D. Chai, V. Popovich, L. Lystrom, S. Kilina J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 29455-29462 (2016). Munro, A. M. “Selenide and Sulfide Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals: Optical
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